Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] saw [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We heard that some rich kids just ignored their fines ; theirs will have been the Porsche 928s we saw about the place . |
| 2 | On April 1-2 he saw for himself the effects of internecine war when he toured the Natal townships ; on April 5 , after his meeting with de Klerk , it was announced that talks would take place in the near future about the remaining obstacles to full negotiations . |
| 3 | He was quite charming , the little I saw of him . ’ |
| 4 | From the little I saw of the game Ipswich seemed quite content with standing inside their own penalty box and only closing down people when they got within 2 yards of it . |
| 5 | It was the most feeling I saw in him , apart from when describing some bitter wrangle in the London ad agency which had caused his walk-out and propelled him here . |
| 6 | Whatever specific qualities Donald Wilson observed in Whitaker 's style of writing , and saw as suitable for Doctor Who , can only be guessed at , but it is very likely he saw in Whitaker the sought-after bridge of writing for adults and writing for children . |
| 7 | The women were young and not unattractive , the sets handsome , the costumes ( what little we saw of them ) pleasing , the camerawork professional and the dialogue or sub-titles not without humour . |
| 8 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 9 | A belated attempt at abdomen-straining brought it swimming back into fuzzy focus , but that dial was all I saw during the remainder of an interminable fast-jet loop . |
| 10 | I was fascinated by all I saw on my way . |
| 11 | Because , let's face it , all you saw in the studio was the barrel of a gun , and on the roof-top , the interior of a cab . |
| 12 | We fished off the southern coast of Iceland but never in sight of the mainland ; all we saw of land was the Hvalsbakur or Whale 's Back , a single forbidding rock sixteen feet high , visible from ten miles away in clear weather . |
| 13 | All we saw of Macca was him being handed back his captn armband by the ref when it fell off . |
| 14 | Once they had set off , Mr Smith and Mr Jones , for all their being well into their middle years , proceeded to behave like schoolboys , singing coarse songs and making even coarser comments on all they saw from the window . |
| 15 | When he tried , all he saw in his mind was a blurred grey oval . |
| 16 | All he saw in her was the absence of his daughter . |
| 17 | One of those I saw in Northampton was extremely impressive and is founded as my honourable friend says , on positive partnership . |
| 18 | It is difficult to discount the evidence that Protestant theology provided important resources for those who saw in experimental science the key to human progress . |
| 19 | Large and powerful interest groups came together coordinating the activities of whole economic sectors and enforcing membership on those they saw as " their " people . |
| 20 | Other such terms , for example free , as in ‘ then we were free ’ , certainly had reference to the past , but carried direct contemporary reference : a man would say of another , ‘ he is a free man ’ , and mean that he took no orders from a superior ; and a man ( asked about his own occupation ) might say with some pride that he was a ‘ free Zuwayi ’ ( zuwayi hurr ) , and imply his condition was closer to the old days than that of most of those he saw around him . |
| 21 | President Reagan came to power with greater hostility for the Soviets than any of his predecessors , and he quickly reached an understanding with Israel concerning those it saw as the Soviet Union 's regional proxies , Syria and the PLO . |
| 22 | The European revolutions of 1848 he saw as a golden opportunity for introducing constitutional monarchies and a united Germany in alliance with Britain . |
| 23 | Moving on , I am sorry we need to , to nineteen forty five which saw Save The Children 's first involvement with pre-school playgroups here in the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | The first they saw of the village may thus have been the dilapidated thatched cottage called Gilberts or Gilbards , which , improbable as it would have seemed to Coleridge in the fever of Pantisocracy , was to have so important a place in his later history . |
| 25 | The last I saw of Jordi was when he turned his head towards me before getting into the car , smiled , and gave a shrug . |
| 26 | That was the last I saw of him . |
| 27 | That was the last I saw of Will . " |
| 28 | ‘ The last I saw of him was as he entered the bedroom , ’ Petion replied . |
| 29 | The last I saw of her she was standing in the lounge aiming a stool at me . |
| 30 | ‘ The last I saw of them , they were all busy checking the distances for the car jump , ’ she said . |